Food Safety | Beware of "eating and drinking diseases"! Overeating is harmful to your body, mind and heart

As people's living standards improve, many people often go out for banquets, and in addition to three meals a day, they also eat snacks constantly. Such uncontrolled eating will not only "eat" many diseases, cause premature aging, shorten life span, but also directly threaten life safety. Therefore, it should arouse the attention of each of us.

Traditional Chinese medicine points out that "eating too much will damage the stomach and intestines." The direct harm of overeating is that it will damage the stomach and intestines, increasing the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, which may lead to indigestion at the mildest and damage the gastrointestinal mucosa at the worst, thus causing gastritis, enteritis, and gastric mucosal erosion and ulcers, which may induce acute gastric dilatation, gastric stasis, cholecystitis and pancreatitis. Long-term overeating may bring health risks to all systems of the body.

1. "Harmful to the body". Overeating can easily lead to excess energy and cause overweight and obesity. This is due to excessive food intake, especially eating foods rich in high fat, high calories and high protein. Excessive intake often leads to fat accumulation in the body, making the body fat and causing metabolic syndrome.

2. "Upsetting the mind". When people eat too much food, digestion and absorption require more blood circulation, and various body functions are in a working state, which can easily make people feel tired and often drowsy.

3. "Kidney damage". Long-term overeating will also increase the burden on the kidneys, because the kidneys have the function of excreting garbage and waste from the body. Overeating will cause too many metabolic products to be excreted from the kidneys, causing the kidneys to operate for a long time without rest, resulting in renal failure.

4. "Brain damage". Overeating can cause slow brain reaction, memory loss, accelerate brain aging and even induce Alzheimer's disease. Long-term excessive eating or overeating can cause a large amount of blood in the body, including the brain, to be transferred to the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in a relative lack of blood and oxygen supply to the brain.

5. "Sadness". For patients with high blood lipids and coronary heart disease, overeating at one time may induce angina pectoris or even myocardial infarction. Many cases of myocardial infarction occur after overeating, because after eating a large amount of high-fat, high-calorie food, the blood lipid concentration suddenly increases, resulting in increased blood viscosity and increased platelet aggregation. Thrombosis is formed on the basis of coronary artery stenosis, causing acute myocardial infarction.

Expert interviewed: Yao Ying, chief physician of the Department of Clinical Nutrition, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology